Archive for February, 2012

It’s called the assault intervention device, and it is being tested in the Los Angeles County jail. The device, developed by Raytheon, is controlled by a joystick and computer monitor and emits a beam about the size of a CD up to distances of about 100 feet. The energy traveling at the speed of light [...]

This is one of those junk science headlines that you just love to hate: “Feds: Fresh milk 150 times more dangerous than pasteurized dairy.” I’ll try to summarize this piece from the Washington Crimes without being too silly. The government needs to go after raw milk farmers because it is “150 times more dangerous” than [...]

This story on David Ortiz sheds some light on the refusal to accept anything other than the government’s conventional wisdom on dietary habits – both in public and the public policy-tainted scientific community. Ortiz eats egg yolks, not egg whites; salmon, but no grouper; no bread or sweets; and beef without restrictions. No one telling [...]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier, it does. In Kitchener, Ontario: A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested him at his children’s’ school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school. …“From a public safety point [...]

What a wonderful Groupon-type thingy for the adolescent Mickey D’s adherents who can’t give up their child food – even when they have their cupcakes. Introducing the hamburger cupcake (macaron?). This is the sort of thing I used to make with Play-Doh as a kid. But now, in the age of never growing up, it’s [...]

A website has gathered approximately 25 flyers from the FBI’s “Communities Against Terrorism” that serve the purpose of guiding American Boobus on how to spot and report “Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities.” The “threat” areas are the following: hobby shops, farm supply stores, martial arts/paintball, dive/boat shops, tattoo shops, etc. I encourage you to click [...]

USDA Rural Development provided a “Value-Added Producer Grant” to a potato chip maker so the company can secure new contracts to sell more junk food that Michele Obama crusades against in her “war” on obesity. Meanwhile, the USDA’a brother-in-arms, the FDA, has shut down the operations of a peaceful businessman who sold raw milk to [...]